Paul Martyn is VP of Supply Strategy at BravoSolution, a provider of supply chain management software.

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After graduation he began working with his brother writing code for enterprise software and built a business in supply-chain management software.

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Dell, with a history of managing a great supply chain and relatively little innovation in management or analysis software, has the longest road to travel to this new model.

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